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Wisconsin is one of the 13 states taking applications

Wisconsin Heat Pump Rebates: Open, and What They Pay

What Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin pays, the condition attached to each figure, who qualifies, who may do the work, and the page to apply on.

Open
Where the programme stands
one of 13 states taking applications
100% of project cost, up to $10,000
Largest figure the office prints
whole home project cap
7
Figures published in all
each with the condition attached
Yes / Yes
Income rule, approved contractor
income sets the size of the award
The answer

You can apply in Wisconsin today

OpenWisconsin IRA Home Energy Rebates (Home Efficiency Rebates and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates)

Wisconsin is taking applications now, through Wisconsin IRA Home Energy Rebates (Home Efficiency Rebates and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates), run by Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. The largest heat pump figure it prints is Up to $8,000. It is one of only 13 states out of 50 where a homeowner can apply today.

  • Wisconsin prints 7 figures, the largest of them 100% of project cost, up to $10,000 for whole home project cap. Each one below carries the sentence or table row it came from.
  • The heat pump line is Up to $8,000. It applies ENERGY STAR electric heat pump for space heating and cooling, must go through a registered contractor.
  • Income decides the size of the award in Wisconsin, or whether there is one at all. Wisconsin runs both routes at once. The electrification track is closed above 150% of area median income, while the whole home track pays every income band, just far less at the top.
  • The work has to go through a contractor the programme has approved. most of the work must be done by a contractor registered with the programme, though some appliances can be bought at a store
  • Beside the rebates, the same programme runs its own long standing Focus on Energy rebates and points low income households to weatherization, and says the two can be combined.
  • Applications go through Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.

Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin

Start the application at Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin IRA Home Energy Rebates, Focus on Energy

Read September 23, 2026.

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Every figure the office prints

All 7 Wisconsin figures

Each figure carries the condition Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin attached to it, and the condition is the half that decides whether the figure applies to a particular house. Where the office wrote a sentence beside the number, that sentence is reproduced whole and linked to the page it was read from, because a paraphrase of an eligibility rule is a different statement than the rule.

Whole home project cap

100% of project cost, up to $10,000

Applies single family under 80% AMI saving 35% or more; the same tier is up to $4,000 between 80% and 150% AMI and up to $3,000 above 150%.

35% or greater 100% of project cost, up to $10,000 100% of project costs, up to $10,000 per unit, $500,000 per building 50% of project cost, up to $4,000 50% of project costs, up to $4,000 per unit, $400,000 building max 50% of project cost, up to $3,000
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Air source heat pump

Up to $8,000

Applies ENERGY STAR electric heat pump for space heating and cooling, must go through a registered contractor.

ENERGY STAR electric heat pump for space heating and cooling Up to $8,000 Registered Contractor
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Heat pump water heater

Up to $1,750

Applies registered contractor or a store purchase you install yourself.

ENERGY STAR® electric heat pump water heater Up to $1,750 Registered Contractor or Store Purchase Yes
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Heat pump clothes dryer

Up to $840

Applies store purchase.

ENERGY STAR electric heat pump clothes dryer Up to $840 Store Purchase
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Electrical panel

Up to $4,000

Electrical load service center (electrical panel) Up to $4,000
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Electrical wiring

Up to $2,500

Electrical Wiring Up to $2,500
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Insulation

Up to $1,600

Applies insulation, ventilation and air sealing together.

ENERGY STAR Insulation, ENERGY STAR ventilation, air sealing Up to $1,600
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
Who it is for, and who may do the work

The two conditions that end most applications

Income and the contractor list are where the largest number of applications stop, and both are usually discovered late. Nationally 34 states publish an income rule and 28 of those tier the award by it, meaning income decides how much is paid rather than only whether anything is; 23 require the work to go through a contractor the programme has approved, which generally excludes work a homeowner does themselves.

Who qualifies in Wisconsin

Income decides the size of the award in Wisconsin, or whether there is one at all. Wisconsin runs both routes at once. The electrification track is closed above 150% of area median income, while the whole home track pays every income band, just far less at the top.

Households below 80% AMI 100% of project costs up to $14,000 Households between 80% and 150% AMI 50% of project costs up to $14,000 Higher income households (>150% AMI) are NOT eligible for this program.
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Who may do the work in Wisconsin

The work has to go through a contractor the programme has approved. most of the work must be done by a contractor registered with the programme, though some appliances can be bought at a store

IRA Registered Contractors have met program standards of certification, licenses, and training. Work must be completed and submitted by an IRA Registered Contractor to receive rebates.
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
An installer in a dust mask and gloves kneeling on joists in a bare attic, laying a fresh batt of pink insulation into the bay beside several already filled, with the roof sheathing close overhead
Fifteen states print a dollar figure for insulation, which puts it fifth behind the air source pump, the whole home cap, the water heater and the electrical panel. It is also the measure most likely to be required before the rest: several offices will pay for a pump only after the envelope has been dealt with, on the reasoning that a pump sized to a leaking house is a pump sized wrong. Where an office has written that rule down, the state page quotes it. “Installing installation in an attic (9337)”, The EnergySmart Academy, CC0
What to do meanwhile

The other Wisconsin money

A utility programme is a different thing from a state one, with its own rules, its own contractor list and its own deadline, and in a handful of states it is worth more than the state programme it stands in for. 31 state offices publish a route like this, and on most of those pages it sits well below the announcement that brought the reader there.

What Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin points at

Beside the rebates, the same programme runs its own long standing Focus on Energy rebates and points low income households to weatherization, and says the two can be combined.

IRA Home Energy Rebates are not the only ways to save on your home energy projects. You may be eligible for other programs, including Focus on Energy rebates and discounts and the Weatherization Assistance Program . Plus, you can combine many of these with IRA Home Energy Rebates for even more savings!
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
A worker in a respirator and knee pads fitting a white moisture barrier and batts of insulation into the low crawl space under a house, working on their side between the floor joists and the bare earth
Weatherization work under a floor, which for most of the country is the only home energy money with a door open on it. Thirty one state energy offices point a homeowner at a utility programme or a weatherization agency while their own rebate is still being designed, and the referral is usually buried well below the announcement. The work in this frame is what that referral leads to. “DOE weatherization services (677)”, U.S. Department of Energy, Public Domain
The other money

A Wisconsin rebate is not the federal tax credit

These are two separate programmes and conflating them is the commonest error on pages about this. A Wisconsin rebate is money off the job, applied for through Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin under its own rules. The federal credit is money off a tax bill, claimed when filing, with no application and no approval step. Different timing, different paperwork, and qualifying for one says nothing about qualifying for the other.

Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin is one of only 10 state offices that address on its own pages whether the two can be claimed together. Its sentence is below, exactly as written, because whether two kinds of money can be combined on one job is a tax question and the office’s own wording is the only safe answer to it.

Wisconsin on combining the two

Note: One street address may not receive a rebate from both IRA Home Efficiency Rebates (HOMES) and HEAR for the same upgrade type. Projects receiving rebates from either of these programs may also be eligible to receive Focus on Energy rebates.
Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source
How Wisconsin compares

13 states are taking applications, 31 are not

Wisconsin is in the smaller group. 13 of the fifty states are taking applications from homeowners, against 31 that have announced a programme and never opened it and 6 in some other state of suspension. An open programme can close: at least one state has reserved its funding, shut, and reopened more than once inside two years.

Across the country 155 separate dollar figures are printed and 21 states print none at all. The spread has little to do with climate: it tracks how each state chose to divide a federal allocation between a small number of large whole home awards and a large number of small per appliance ones.

A tall grey outdoor condenser unit standing on a frame against a stone garden wall, its fins and louvred side panel filling the frame, no maker’s plate or badge visible anywhere on it
The outdoor half of a heat pump is the same box in the same place as the outdoor half of an air conditioner, which is why so many homeowners cannot tell from the yard which one they already own. It matters to the paperwork: an office that pays for a swap usually wants to know what the house burns today, and Arizona has written that from September 2026 it will pay only where the equipment being replaced was already electric. “Outdoor air conditioner unit installed in residential garden space”, Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0

Wisconsin heat pump rebate questions

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Heat pump rebates in other states

Wisconsin heating assistanceHelp with the heating bill itself, which is a different programme with its own income test and its own deadline.Wisconsin heating fuel pricesWhat the fuel in the tank costs this winter, which is the number a heat pump is usually being weighed against.Wisconsin winter shutoff rulesWhether a utility may disconnect heat in winter where you live, and the dates the protection runs.Wisconsin heating seasonWhen the heat normally goes on, which is the window any of this work has to be finished inside.

Wisconsin read September 23, 2026 from Focus on Energy, delivering the IRA Home Energy Rebates for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin’s own pages, linked beside every figure and every rule. A programme can open, reserve its funding and stop taking applications inside a single season, so the office page linked above is what governs on the day. Every state is on the home energy rebates hub.